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Ex-Khmer Rouge head of state arrested
Nov 18 2007 11:57PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, was arrested Monday by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal after being taken from a hospital where he was being treated following a stroke, officials said.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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Pakistan: US envoy brought 'nothing new'
Nov 18 2007 11:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy.
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China not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Nov 18 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUIYU, China (AP) - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
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China not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Nov 18 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUIYU, China (AP) - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
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China not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Nov 18 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUIYU, China (AP) - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
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China not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Nov 18 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUIYU, China (AP) - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
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China not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Nov 18 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUIYU, China (AP) - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Bangladesh cyclone deaths climb to 2,300
Nov 18 2007 11:45PM (CT)
BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks
Nov 18 2007 10:51PM (CT)
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (AP) - Vowing to face down "environmental terrorists," a Japanese fleet embarked on the country's largest whaling expedition Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s.
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Taliban torture, execute 5 Afghan police
Nov 18 2007 7:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban torture, execute 5 Afghan police
Nov 18 2007 7:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban torture, execute 5 Afghan police
Nov 18 2007 7:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban torture, execute 5 Afghan police
Nov 18 2007 7:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban torture, execute 5 Afghan police
Nov 18 2007 7:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.
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Myanmar sends mixed messages on reform
Nov 18 2007 1:32PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The United Nations heaped praise on Myanmar's military junta this week for allowing meetings with prominent political prisoners, and said that progress was being made in brokering discussions between the government and opposition.
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Myanmar sends mixed messages on reform
Nov 18 2007 1:32PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The United Nations heaped praise on Myanmar's military junta this week for allowing meetings with prominent political prisoners, and said that progress was being made in brokering discussions between the government and opposition.
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Myanmar sends mixed messages on reform
Nov 18 2007 1:32PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The United Nations heaped praise on Myanmar's military junta this week for allowing meetings with prominent political prisoners, and said that progress was being made in brokering discussions between the government and opposition.
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Pakistan: 91 dead in sectarian unrest
Nov 18 2007 6:09AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Rival Sunni and Shiite Muslims clashed Sunday in a northwestern Pakistan town where three days of sectarian violence has left 91 people _ most of them civilians _ dead, officials said. The military said it was sending forces to the area to quell the fighting.
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ASEAN rejects US call to suspend Myanmar
Nov 18 2007 5:14AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Sunday rejected the U.S. Senate's call to suspend Myanmar, saying the military-ruled country is like a troubled child who must be disciplined with dialogue.
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ASEAN rejects US call to suspend Myanmar
Nov 18 2007 5:14AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Sunday rejected the U.S. Senate's call to suspend Myanmar, saying the military-ruled country is like a troubled child who must be disciplined with dialogue.
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